Civil Rights Icon Jesse Jackson Dies at Age Eighty-Four

What Happened?

Yesterday, civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate Jesse Jackson died of natural causes at the age of eighty-four. Reverend Jackson had been hospitalized for several weeks due to progressive supranuclear palsy.

Jesse Jackson first gained national notoriety in the 1960s as confidant of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. After King’s assassination in 1968, Jackson became one of the most widely known civil rights leaders in America.

Briefly the front-runner for the Democratic primary nomination for president in 1988, Reverend Jackson’s signature motto was ‘keep hope alive.’

Why it Matters

Jesse Jackson’s two presidential campaigns likely paved the way for the later election of then U.S. Senator Barack Obama to the presidency in 2008. By advocating for changes to the way the Democratic Party conducted its primary and by appealing to broad swaths of white, middle-class voters, Jesse Jackson defied critics to prove an African American candidate for the presidency had more electability than anyone previously thought possible.

The civil rights career of Jesse Jackson began in earnest when Martin Luther King, Jr. gave Mr. Jackson a key organizational role in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. As he gained prominence for his organizational abilities and public speaking prowess, Jesse Jackson brought a new approach to the civil rights movement in terms of philosophy. 

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The civil rights movement had been a political battle in the deep south since the end of the Civil War. Despite the additions of the 13^th, 14^th, and 15^th amendments to the Constitution after the Confederacy surrendered, many Southerners passed legislation designed to prevent African Americans from exercising their new legal rights. These pieces of legislation became known as the Jim Crow laws, and their intent was to disenfranchise African Americans from the political process to the maximum extent possible.

For most of the time, the civil rights movement was centered on race, because the Jim Crow laws were passed in order to prevent one race of people, African Americans, from participating in civic life and from receiving equal protection of the laws. Jesse Jackson added a new dimension, seeing the civil rights movement in terms of class as well as race, once remarking, ‘When we change the race problem into a class fight between the haves and the have-nots, then we are going to have a new ball game.’ 

How it Affects You

The fusion of civil rights with economic inequality had broader resonance politically than just the deep south, because in many places across the U.S., poor whites felt nearly as excluded from the political process as blacks. Jackson’s approach helped create more common ground between poor and middle-class white voters and the broader civil rights movement.

Jackson also proved that American voters were willing to listen to compelling oratory from a black candidate for the presidency, something that helped inspire Barack Obama’s first successful run for the presidency in 2008. 

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